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...ethereal, sinuous style of monophonic singing known as Gregorian chant is still alive and well, thank you. In the year's biggest musical surprise, a recording of Gregorian melodies sung by Benedictine monks from the abbey of Santo Domingo de Silos in Spain has suddenly become a monster hit. Issued, appropriately enough, by Angel, Chant has sold more than 220,000 copies in its first two weeks of release. The album is already No. 1 on the classical charts as well as 47 in the pop rankings, and a video is on the way. Even more improbably, Chant is getting...
LOCH NESS MONSTER...
Harvard certainly has not fallen to the state of some of this nation's monster universities. It has some very innovative and beneficial programs, such as the junior seminars, which put students into contact with professors. However, the broader problem still exists: too little faculty time spent teaching...
...students, our job is to study. As student leaders, our job is to lead an organization as well. As anyone will tell you, leading an organization is a huge monster task," says Alex Cho '95, head of the Asian American Association. "We don't have time to do anything that won't generate immediate results. That's why dealing with the administration becomes frustrating...
...could anyone live inside this monster's skin for the three harrowing months of filming? Perhaps for so mesmerizing a role, the question must be, How could any actor not want to? "In playing Amon," says Fiennes, who put on 28 lbs. for the part, "I got close to his pain. Inside him is a fractured, miserable human being. I feel split about him, sorry for him. He's like some dirty, battered doll I was given and that I came to feel peculiarly attached...